“Jeb Bush and Lindsay Graham also come to mind.”
True, but honestly, it would seem the list of Republicans doing their jobs is shorter than trying to name all of the bad ones. But those 2 are up there. Mitt Romney is probably the worst, but there’s a lot of competition.
But I am using “disappointing” to more narrowly describe the Republicans who at one time or another had me believing they would do a pretty good job. I never really expected good things from Romney. So my feelings toward him are less on the disappointing side, and more toward disgust.
W is the only president I’ve met. I expected great things from him. He delivered on some. And he convinced me to support the war in Iraq. He could have used 9/11 to rally support to secure the border. Christians in the Middle East have been destroyed because of the war and our lack of a plan to protect them. And then Obama came along and worked with Hillary to help those who hate Christians o further harm them.
And W never had any criticisms of Obama. He saved them for Trump. As far as I’m concerned W could hang for war crimes and I wouldn’t care or come to his defense.
And if it turns out Pence was working behind the scenes to undermind President, I’d feel the same about him.
George W Bush was a major disappointment. “Compassionate conservatism” was simply lip service to the voter base. George had no real vision for the country and he certainly didn’t view his role as protecting the liberty of citizens. Had he cared about freedom and liberty he would never have proposed the “Patriot Act” which gave the intelligence agencies and the FBI clearance to violate the constitutional rights of citizens with impunity.
My take is most Republican politicians are administrators, not ideologues. They wear the “conservative” mantle during campaigns because the voter base is conservatives and demands at minimum lip service to conservative principles. However, they are not driven by a limited government, free market, individual liberty ideology. They have no compelling vision for the country, they just say what the voters want to hear to get elected. They then go about trying to get along in the inside the beltway club and many chase money and power.